Pokkén Tournament

Pokkén Tournament
Promotional art used in Wii U version's cover art depicting Pikachu and Lucario in its mega-evolved form
DeveloperBandai Namco Studios
Publishers
DirectorHaruki Suzaki
Producers
DesignerYasuhito Kobayashi
ProgrammerSei Nakatani
Artists
  • Hiroyasu Hosoya
  • Hiromi Watanabe
Composers
Hiroki Hashimoto
    • Hiroyuki Kawada
    • Rio Hamamoto
    • Taku Inoue
    • Eriko Sakurai
    • Yoshinori Hirai
    • Takafumi Sato
    • Mitsuhiro Kitadani
    • Yu Sugimoto
    • Shota Kageyama
Series
PlatformsArcade
Wii U
Nintendo Switch
ReleaseArcade
  • JP: July 16, 2015
Wii U
  • WW: March 18, 2016
Nintendo Switch
  • WW: September 22, 2017
GenreFighting
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Pokkén Tournament is a 2015 fighting video game developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game combines gameplay elements from Bandai Namco's Tekken series and other fighting games, such as 3D and 2D movement, with characters from the Pokémon franchise. It was released for Japanese arcades in July 2015 and worldwide for the Wii U in March 2016. An enhanced port for the Nintendo Switch, Pokkén Tournament DX, was released in September 2017. The arcade version was published by Bandai Namco, the Japanese console versions were published by The Pokémon Company, and the console versions outside of Japan were published by Nintendo.